Category: 4. Health

The Cigna Group reported a second quarter profit of $1.5 billion as its Evernorth health service business…

The researchers emphasize that weight loss associated with GLP-1 drugs has many clear health benefits for people with obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart failure, including improving blood-sugar control, short-term cardiorenal benefits and improvements in…

In an invited editorial published in the current issue of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine,…

This discovery, believed to be the first of its kind, reveals that cool temperatures get their own pathway, indicating that evolution has created different circuits for hot and cold temperatures. This creates an elegant solution for ensuring precise thermal perception and appropriate behavioral responses to environmental…

While we live in the Plastics Age, and it may no longer be a huge surprise that we are constantly exposed to microplastics, a new study claims that we might be inhaling 100 times more microplastics in our own homes and cars than scientists had previously estimated. To be more specific, human beings might be inhaling around 68,000 microplastic…

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the impact of Trump’s tariffs on drugs made in Europe, Halle Berry’s menopause startup, Ambience Healthcare’s $243 million fundraise, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here.

For months, there have been questions about what the impact of Trump’s tariffs on drugs would be. On Sunday, we got part of the answer: Under the trade deal reached between the U.S. and the…

A small molecule left over after gut microbes finish digesting your meal may one day provide a new angle for managing cardiovascular disease.

Certain gut microbes break down the amino acid histidine, one of the building blocks of proteins, into a small molecule called imidazole propionate, or ImP. In a new study published July 16 in Nature, researchers found an association between higher blood levels of ImP and early cardiovascular disease. And in mice, the international team…

A recent executive order could hinder public health efforts designed to prevent new HIV infections. The EO largely focuses on people experiencing housing insecurities. But it also calls into question the value of harm reduction programs developed to help people…

Last month, recent Wall Street AI darling Palantir announced a new partnership with Teletracking to use its AI suite in conjunction with the latter’s platform to optimize healthcare operations and organizational decision-making capabilities.

Palantir’s Foundry and AIP systems will be integrated with Teletracking’s OperationIQ platform in order to:

• “Seamlessly integrate clinical,…

Things just got even tougher for science and scientists around the country and the countless patients and other people that their research could eventually…